“You’re a thug and an inciter,” Michal Rozin of Meretz left-leaning Israeli party, said responding to the right-wing lawmaker.

The Deputy Knesset Speaker Bezalel Smotrich said 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager who has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation, should have “gotten a bullet” for slapping the Israeli soldier.

(PL )The 13th Solidarity International Brigade Primero de Mayo starts today a program which combines productive activities, visit to places of historical interest and the participation of the International Worker”s Day parade.

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More than 500 young people from some 50 countries are debating today their concerns with ministers and senior representatives from different countries at the United Nations” youth forum, which ends today.

The Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, stressed that this is the only event where the new generations meet to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals and express their concerns.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned today about the serious consequences of a cut in the financial aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Continue reading →

The Supreme Pontiff stressed that the duty of all is to respect cultures and welcome newcomers with hospitality.

Pope Francis on Sunday called on all those nations that receive a large influx of immigrants and refugees to maintain a cordial and hospitable treatment for those who are arriving in their countries.

During the fourth annual edition of the World Day of Migrants ceremony in the Vatican, the Supreme Pontiff stressed that local citizens should consider that those who emigrate, come to their nations with the premise of a better future and also with the fear of being rejected and of failure.

The annual report published by Credit Suisse states the wealth gap has widened since the 2008 financial crisis in the U.S. According to the report, the world’s wealthiest people held 42.5 percent of the global wealth at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, compared to the 50.1 percent in 2017.

“The share of the top 1 percent has been on an upward path ever since [the crisis], passing the 2000 level in 2013 and achieving new peaks every year thereafter,” the annual report said. Adding, “global wealth inequality has certainly been high and rising in the post-crisis period.”

“This report highlights the huge gulf between the haves and the have-nots—the world’s richest one percent own more than everyone else combined while the poorest half of the population share less than a penny of every pound of wealth,” Katy Chakrabortty, head of advocacy for Oxfam, said in a statement.

All the classes that pay taxes are to a large extent dependent on the resources under the control of white monopoly capital. Even the ability of workers to pay taxes depends on the employment they get largely from white monopoly capital.

Employees of the state derive their salaries from state taxes and state borrowing, which ultimately spring from the resources under white monopoly.

Therefore, not only is the state objectively owned and controlled by white monopoly capital, but largely the whole of society is under white monopoly capitalist control. Ideologically, white monopoly capitalists have even started a campaign in which their very existence and relevance is denied.

Defenders of white monopoly capital claim that because many of the companies that dominate the economy are partly owned by pension funds of black workers, white monopoly and control is a fiction.

What these apologists of white domination conveniently forget is that even under apartheid, the pension funds of black workers were used to finance white monopoly capital. Yet it could not be said that black workers owned and controlled the apartheid economy. Indeed, on paper, pension funds are owned largely by workers.

In fact, the control of these funds is monopolised by white-owned asset managers, who have positioned themselves, on the basis of these funds, as “investors”. The wealth of black workers is in the hands of white monopoly capital.

It’s a special day for me because I will be able to celebrate Mother’s Day (on Sunday) with my children and my grandchildren,” Vizguerra said.

A Mexican mother of four who moved into a Denver church three months ago to dodge deportation left her sanctuary on Friday to chants of “If we fight, we win” after immigration authorities promised she could remain in the United States for two years.